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{{Magical Entities
|magic=[[Surgebinding]], [[Fabrial|Fabrials]]
|appearance=Varies
|world=Roshar
;[[Wyndle]]: [[Lift]]'s spren
;[[Glys]]: [[Renarin]]'s spren
;Name unknown: [[Highspren]] of [[Szeth-son-son-Vallano]]
==Known Subtypes==
In WoR we find out that the Voidbringers are Parshendi bonded with Storm Spren
==Theories and Speculation==
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It may be possible that there are larger categories of spren. When accused of being a [[Voidbringer]] Pattern retorts that "[he] is no voidspren..." From this it has been extrapolated that the divisions of spren may have two axis: their power level and their source.
The power axis has been addressed above and has 3 main anchor points (though if graphed spren would likely form a spectrum). These points would be the common spren (thous who embody/personify the effects of human conciesness) Bondspren (thous capable of forming a [[Nahel Bond]] with a human and depend on this bond for sentience while outside of [[Shadesmar]]) and Godspren (also capable of forging a [[Nahel Bond]], but who have great power in or influance over the physical realm even without it)
A spren's other dimension, its source, refers to which shard ultimately caused its existence. Most spren would likely be the product of Honor of Cultivation (say honorspren and cultivation spren respectively), while Voidspren are of Odium.
It should be noted that so far a number of times spren have been called Gods or as Syl put it "a tiny part of one." And Sanderson has confirmed that spren are slivers. If it is assumed that the desolations began to occur before Odium killed Honor than it is likely that the Heralds first formed the Knights Radiant before Honor shattered entirely. This would imply that spren, at least Bondspren, where present in the world before Honor shattered. If this was true of Honor than it was/is likely true of Cultivation as well. These protospern present before Honor's death would be the equivalent of the piece of Preservation within each [[Scadrial|Scadrialan]].
In support of the above assumptions there is the fact that Odium is by no means dead, yet his Voidspren are still present on Roshar (and therefore likely inhabit [[Shadesmar]] as well). If he can send spren into the [[cosmere]] while alive but "imprisoned by the othpact" (an act which would be necessary to create the Voidbringers and bring about each of the previous 99 desolations) it might be true that Honor and cultivation can send spren while alive too.
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